Il volo rachmaninoff biography

Il Volo is a lyrical singing trio composed of tenors Piero Barone (June 24, 1993) and Ignazio Boschetto (October 4, 1994) and baritone Gianluca Ginobile (February 11, 1995). They are participating for the third time in the Sanremo competition, which they won in 2015. Tonight they arrive at the Ariston with Capolavoro.

Who they are

The trio was formed in 2009, during the participation of the three in the second edition of the children's singing talent show "Ti lascio una canzone". The oldest, Piero Barone, from Naro in the province of Agrigento, was only 15 years old at the time, while the other two, Ignazio Boschetto and Gianluca Ginobile, both 14 years old, came respectively from Marsala in the province of Trapani, and from Montepagano, a fraction of Roseto degli Abruzzi in the province of Teramo. All three had presented themselves to the selection as soloists and did not know each other. At the will of director Roberto Cenci they occasionally became a trio, earning the nickname of "tenorini" (on the lines of "The Three Tenors" Pavarotti, Domingo and Carreras) for their young age.

The contract in the USA

The performance of the three singers captures the interest of some American record producers from Geffen Records, a label owned by Universal Music Group, who offer them a contract of a good two million dollars for the publication of an album on the international market. The three singers thus become the first (and to date the only) Italian artists to sign an agreement with a "major" American label.

The debut album

In 2010, the eponymous "Il Volo" was released, the group's debut album, also available in Spanish (a recurring fact in the musical career of the trio), which immediately achieved great international success, with reinterpretations of songs such as "O sole mio", "Un amore così grande" and "Smile" by Charlie Chaplin. The album to date has obtained 11 gold records and three Platinum records in as many countries (14 in total). The debut album will then be followed by "We are love" and a Christmas cover album.

The victory at Sanremo 2015

The "Italian" consecration of the group took place following the victory of the Sanremo Festival in 2015 with the unreleased song "Grande amore", composed in 2003 by singer Francesco Boccia and Ciro "Tommy" Esposito from "Il Giardino dei Semplici", certified double platinum record by FIMI. With the same songs the three then represented Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest, finishing third. Then there will be three other publications, in addition to various live albums and collections. In 2019 another participation in the Sanremo competition with Musica che resta, which came third.

Private life: who are the girlfriends of the trio members

Baritone Gianluca Ginobile is currently dating a young stylist who works in Milan for the haute couture house "Rosamosario": Eleonora Venturini Storaro. The girl graduated in Fashion and Costume from La Sapienza University in Rome, then continued her studies, always in the field of fashion, at the Marangoni Institute in Milan. The story between the two is going very well, according to what the singer recently told Silvia Toffanin, during an episode of Verissimo.

Ignazio Boschetto was engaged to Ana Paula Guedes, a 27-year-old Brazilian dancer known in her homeland for having participated in an edition of "Dança dos Famosos", the South American equivalent of our "Dancing with the Stars".

Piero Barone, on the other hand, is single. He made it known - also him - in the living room of Silvia Toffanin: "Love is a particular theme, many are lucky to find their soul mate, I still no". In the past of the Sicilian tenor, however, there are two names known to the public: Veronica Ruggeri, reporter of the Hyenas, and Valentina Allegri, daughter of Massimiliano Allegri, coach of Juventus.

The controversy with the Swiss hotel

The fact dates back to September 2015, when the trio was a guest in Switzerland, to participate in a television show. The three tenors had ended up in a whirlwind of controversy because the staff of the Hotel Garni du Lac in Locarno had accused them of having turned their room upside down, before deciding to stay elsewhere. The owner of the hotel had spoken to the Ticino daily La Regione of "mattresses, objects and bed linen thrown on the ground". To add fuel to the fire, the local broadcaster Libera Tv had launched the news that the three singers had even urinated outside the toilet in the hotel room's bathroom. To deny everything was subsequently Danilo Ciotti, press officer of the trio, who through a note had clarified: "I can confirm that they do not like the carpet (...) and especially for this reason they tried to be able to move. It was an unpleasant episode (...) but I categorically exclude that they may have damaged something intentionally". The three had then communicated on Twitter that false news had been spread, invented ad hoc, as retaliation against their decision to change hotel due to the dirt found on their arrival in the room: "Two nights ago we found ourselves in a dirty hotel room full of dust. These are not the ideal conditions to stay for anyone, but even less for a singer allergic to dust", they specified. The same owner of the Garni du Lac had then withdrawn the accusations, reporting to Pomeriggio 5 that rumors about the alleged devastation of the room had been spread, in a greatly enlarged form, by some cleaning staff, and then relaunched by him without however having first made sure they were true.